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264 Correspondence of Governor Sharpe.
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Letter Bk. III
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would be better for him even to lose a good Sum than be
detained any longer at Phila" Had not Your Excellency
declined having any thing to do with any Accounts untill they
had been laid before the Assembly I could have delivered
them to you properly proven at Carlyle Mr Ross having
brought 'em thither to lay before you or such person as might
have been appointed to examine them, they were the very
same that would have been laid before the Assembly & I am
sure Dr Ross is too well acquainted with their Disposition
towards him to charge any Article in his Accounts for which
he cannot produce Vouchers. As the whole Sum that he has
received from Mr Howell on his own Account viz. the Bills for
£2770.9.8 stg (which he received in lieu 0^2976: 15 Currency
& the £850 st8) is to my Knowledge far short of what is actu-
ally due to him, I need not I apprehend restrain him with
respect to any Payments that he might want to make because
if he pays any Money that he ought not it will be to his own
Loss, whether his Accounts be finally examined & settled by
our Assembly or by any other Persons, I shall however write
to the Doctor as you desire & let him know that whatever
money he receives now he must be accountable for whenever
he shall be called upon. After Your Excellency & Mr Kilby
shall have advanced our Troops & Mr Ross all that you shall
think fit I imagine it would not be amiss for you to inform me
by a Letter how much you have jointly or severally advanced
on the Credit of the Province that I might lay the same before
our Assembly at their next meeting (which will be immedi-
ately on my Return from Fort Cumberland) & desire them to
provide for your being reimbursed accordingly, that is if you
advance some Current money & some Sterling which will be
the Case that they may repay you in the same Specie, & at their
Settlement with our Officers & Doctor Ross may make them
Debtors for just as much as you & Mr Kilby may have
advanced them. As Mr Howell & Mr Ross seem to have rep-
resented what has passed between them on this occasion in a
different Light I can only say that if Mr Ross has endeavoured
to impose on me now I believe it is the first time & if I find it
so, it will be the last time he shall have an Opportunity.
It gives me no small pleasure to learn that you are able to
travel at any Rate as I was afraid from what I had lately
heard that you could not proceed in any manner whatever, I
sincerely wish that you may recover Strength daily & be able
to go thro any fatigue that you may have occasion to undergo
during the Campaign. I am obliged to you for having sent
such orders as I desired to the Commissary at Fort Cumber-
land, It gives me great Satisfaction to find myself able to do
a thing that is agreeable to you & you may depend on my
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